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Planning & Prep

A beautiful quilt starts long before the first seam. Learn how to choose fabrics, organize your project, plan your layout, and prepare for a smoother, more enjoyable quilting experience.

Thoughts – Pep talk for New Quilters
Planning & Prep

Thoughts – Pep talk for New Quilters

Little Miss Sawtooth   I show little snippets of my garden on IG here and there, but I think this…

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Thoughts About Quilting
Planning & Prep | Quilting

Thoughts About Quilting

  I think it’s been a bit since I wrote a post that was only about some thoughts, but I…

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Thoughts on Hand Applique + Progress of Para Para Quilt
Planning & Prep | work in progress

Thoughts on Hand Applique + Progress of Para Para Quilt

  If you missed my previous post on Para Para, you can find it here.  I’m back at it and…

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Work In Progress – Para Para Quilt – Beginnings + Why seams are off sometimes
Planning & Prep | work in progress

Work In Progress – Para Para Quilt – Beginnings + Why seams are off sometimes

Fabrics Pictured Field Suede – Alma – By Alexia Abegg Butterscotch – Spark – Melody Miller Cactus – Add it…

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All About Scrappy Quilts
Planning & Prep

All About Scrappy Quilts

  Next Wednesday, I’m releasing my first set of scrappy patterns called Scrappy Pattern Pack.  With that pattern you get…

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Exploring the Many Ways of Binding A Quilt
Binding | Planning & Prep

Exploring the Many Ways of Binding A Quilt

  We all have a method of binding that we like best and that we think is the “best” way. …

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An Interview with Shelly from Havel’s Sewing + My favorite Havel’s products
Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along | Notions & Tools | Planning & Prep | product reviews

An Interview with Shelly from Havel’s Sewing + My favorite Havel’s products

  We start the Little Miss Sawtooth quilt along in 8 days!  I hope you are ready! The quilt along…

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A Guide for the Beginner Quilter + Tips from Experienced Quilters
Planning & Prep

A Guide for the Beginner Quilter + Tips from Experienced Quilters

  With the release of my Patchwork + Make class this week I’m on the topic of the beginner quilter. …

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A Scrappy Low Volume Background Guide
Planning & Prep

A Scrappy Low Volume Background Guide

  This is a topic that I get asked about on a weekly basis and I thought it was high…

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The Great Big Scrap Discussion – Part 3 – Tips + Patterns
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The Great Big Scrap Discussion – Part 3 – Tips + Patterns

This post is part of a 4-series of posts dedicated to the topic of fabric scraps. Find all the posts…

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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 2- Cutting + Storing
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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 2- Cutting + Storing

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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 1- What is a fabric scrap?
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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 1- What is a fabric scrap?

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Trying new things. 🙃 Teaching over at Quilty Class Trying new things. 🙃 Teaching over at Quilty Class has been pushing me, tbh. 
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I did not like the Peace Lily design at all, but the feathered leaf 😍. I’m on the fence about the tiny hook flowers as a filler. I like the tornados, but much prefer my swirls and pebbles over them. 
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I’m getting a new class ready now for a 5-quilt FMQ series. Wish me luck!
Some pics of my latest FMQ project. Very very new- Some pics of my latest FMQ project. Very very new-to-me designs. Loving the texture, but missing the feathers. Last little bit of this class will be available in the next hour or so. 
Pattern: Lulu Louise
Fabric: Happy Home
Sorry about all the bumping of the camera 🙄 It’s a Sorry about all the bumping of the camera 🙄 It’s always a battle. 

This video comes from the Swayful class where we learned how to free motion these swirl flowers. Imma big fan of them. ☺️ Full lessons in the Swayful Quilty class at quiltyclass.com
Another design on this same quilt. This one’s a la Another design on this same quilt. This one’s a larger swirl flower with gloppy petals. Full look coming soon. 

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Omigosh this is my new favorite FMQ design. 👏👏 I’m Omigosh this is my new favorite FMQ design. 👏👏 I’m calling it a feathered leaf 🙃
This is maybe the third or fourth time I’ve quilte This is maybe the third or fourth time I’ve quilted scallops. Never stacked like this though. It was a whole different animal to stitching them in a border. 🦁 Anyway this is one of the lessons in chapter 6 of Lulu. Join us at Quiltyclass.com
Some S-curves. LOVE the look of these because it e Some S-curves. LOVE the look of these because it ends up with a geometric vine look.
Pretty pleased 🤭 Pattern is: Lulu Louise. Fabric i Pretty pleased 🤭 Pattern is: Lulu Louise. Fabric is: Pretty Please. Come learn how to quilt this quilt at quiltyclass.com
A few pics from chapter 5. We FMQed feathers in th A few pics from chapter 5. We FMQed feathers in the foreground and s-curves in the background.
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